I’m sure we’ve done something!
So, erm, waht did we do then? I pitched the tent as the weather was sunny and Aprilia wanted to play in her kid’s pod and agreed to be educated if it was in the tent. The "fits any Outwell tent with this specification" pod doesn’t fit ours. Even though it should. Not even close although, obviously, being a resourceful type it’s nothing that some sturdy elastic, a few plastic rings and a bit of patience won’t cure. Irritating though. But once it was up we moved into it for the day anyway and did indeed do some educating! It’s still up several days later because, naturally, as hte last peg went into the mud, sorry, I mean ground, the heavens opened so it’s been water tested now and found to be excellent. Apart from where I broke the basic rules of tenting and left a tiny strip of groundsheet poking out from under the fly sheet. Silly woman!
My OU books arrived this week. Much easier to read with regard to the writing style but still very close packed text which is hard on the eyes and doesn’t leave you any space to mark the text. So I’m plodding through all the PDF downloads that they kindly provide on the course website, converting them to text, reformatting them in a much nicer font, in 1.5 line spacing and running them through Read and Write to convert them to audio files to listen to whilst I’m at it. Duke has already made comments about how much time I spent sorting texts out for this course and is it going to be like this until October. I took a very deep breath and informed him that i would invest less time on studying than he invests in biking and emergency service related forums but that it would be lovely if he could support me just a little by, perhaps entertaining his daughter every now and then. Vain hope.
Aprilia made an attempt to sleep over at Nelly’s last night but I had to go and rescue her at 10pm because Nelly wouldn’t shut up. Good job she only lives a couple of streets away!
Tonight Duke has taken Aprilia to his cousin’s house. He was somewhat put out that I declined to go too. This, despite the fact that even he noticed that I was treated like I wasn’t there at Christmas and that he knows exactly what I think of teachers who are arogant enough to think that a teaching diploma gives them the right to teach a subject they ahve no knowlege of and to pass comment on the abilities or otherwise of people suffering from learning disabilities that they have no understanding of. But anyway, Aprilia will play with Emmie and be blissfully happy, Duke will chat with "cousin in law" and be blissfully happy, I am home, blissfully happy, so that’s okay then!
Oh, and the eating our way round the world thing…. we had "latkes" (Jewish potato things, like Rostis) the other night, they were very nice, I will def be adding them into the recipe book… do you think anyone will mind that I served them with cold gammon 
